Together Raises $20M for Open-Source AI | | | | Turtles AI

  #Together, an #open-source #generative #AI and #cloud #platform, has secured $20M in #seed #funding led by Lux #Capital. The platform aims to provide leading open-source generative AI models and a cloud platform that makes AI accessible to anyone, anywhere. The founders of Together were driven by the belief that open and decentralized alternatives to closed systems in AI were going to be important and possibly critical for business and society. The funding round was backed by several venture funds and prominent entrepreneurs who share the vision of an open ecosystem for AI. Together has an incredible team of researchers, engineers, and AI practitioners and has released several projects that have garnered support from hundreds of thousands of AI developers. Together's cloud platform leverages research in distributed optimization to efficiently scale training and inference for large models. The platform aims to enable rapid customization and coupling of foundation models with production tasks, giving developers and organizations greater ability to understand, inspect, and utilize AI without vendor lock-in and with strong privacy protections. The goal is to help create open models that outrival closed models and establish open-source as the default way to incorporate AI.